Patrick goes 'nuts'

Yes, as previously promised, Patrick's First Buckeye Game. So this is how it goes, We had tickets for 4 games at the beginning of the year. As those of you who have season tickets know, people are ALWAYS asking you for tickets to games you don't have. Another famous comment in the off season, "oh, I'd LOVE to go to a Buckeye Game sometime, just call me anytime you have extra tickets." Where are all these people when you have extra tickets? No where to be found.

I had been planning to wait another year or two to take Pat to a game. I thought he wouldn't be able to sit still for 3 1/2 hours. Well, turns out for the Purdue game, we didn't have anyone to watch the kids so Yadira and I could go. I truthfully offered to let her go with Pat and I would stay with the girls, but she didn't want to. So after calling about 30 people the couple of days before the game and finding NO ONE who wanted to go to the game, we packed up the Fam and headed to C-bus. Us boys had a great time at the game, and the girls went to the zoo.

Patrick did great. He asked a lot of questions about the game process, and he had fun trying to spot #33, who's jersey he was wearing. His favorite thing was to play "where's Brutus". It is a lot like playing Where's Waldo, trying to find Brutus in an ocean of Scarlet and Gray. It didn't take him long to figure out that he could ask for food and get it in almost limitless quantities. It's AMAZING, people actually walk up to your seats and bring you food.

Mom and her lil' Buckeye before the Game

On the way in, awe inspiring view of the 'Shoe

We hadn't even sat down yet, before he had his first hot dog.

He thought Script Ohio was pretty neat. Although it was upside down for us :(

Dotting the 'i'

5 hot dogs, 1 popcorn, 2 diet cokes, 1 water, 1 dipping dots, 1 hot pretzel later.

This was pretty neat. While walking through Buckeye Grove on the way out of the stadium we saw two buckeyes on the trees and I lifted him up to get them. It will be a souvenir that not many people have, a buckeye right from the hallowed grounds.

Pat and I had a great time, and I can foresee many future Buckeye Games together (when mom doesn't want to go, of course). So to all you big talkers, who claim to want to go to a game but are too whipped to go through with it when the time comes, too bad. All future tickets are now spoken for by a new generation of 'nuts'.

-Scott

Tricky Treats

We had trick-or-treat in our neighborhood yesterday. Lake Township always does it the Sunday before Halloween. Isabel, Patrick, and Nicole could hardly wait to load up their buckets with candy. In fact, they kept asking all during church if it was time to go home and dress up. A bunch of friends met at our house before hand and then we all pillaged the neighborhood for treats. Shaun and Sarah; Randy, Lavonne, and Nina; and Jesus and Laura all came for the fun. Jesus, Laura, and Sarah were the only adults brave enough to dress up.

Shaun and my dad Charlie were in charge of passing out candy at our house while the rest of the crew ventured around our neighborhood to get some goodies. Several of our neighbors were letting the kids pick their own candy (the parents tried to persuade their decision-making, ie. chocolate, of course) but the kids always ended up getting what they really wanted. Patrick was trying to load up with Kit-Kats. That is, when he wasn't picking candy eyeballs and other assorted body parts. The wax Dracula fangs are especially tasty. It started out beautiful and sunny, and ended up cold and rainy. At the end of our trail (or was it trial?) each kid ended up with at least 2 lbs of candy.

- Yadira

Captain Jack Sparrow, Cowgirl, and Sleeping Beauty

Andrew, Sydney, and Aaron (our neighbors)

Nina, Nicole, Captain Morgan, err. Jack, and Isabel

Laura (sister-in-law), Pat, Sarah (friend), Nina, Nicole, Jesus (brother), Kaylee, and Isabel

Charlie gets a kiss from Marilyn Monroe. This was right before his heart stopped and we had to administer CPR. Thank God he is all right. Although he now goes by 'Charles' and has a funny facial tick.

Scott sure looks hot with the red boa wrapped around his neck

Tooth Fairy Time

Patrick lost his first tooth 2 weeks ago. He got $2 from the tooth fairy. The next morning he was convinced that the tooth fairy had brought $7 dollars. He told us that he woke up in the middle of the night and looked under his pillow where he saw one $5 dollar bill and two $1 dollar bill. Patrick looked behind and under his bed several times until he finally gave up on that idea. We told him that he had probably had a dream